The Beatles opened their Revolver album sessions on this date in 1966 at Abbey Road Studios in London. The album would be the group's final one before retiring from touring, which gave them the time to concentrate on recording. The advances in studio technology and the time to take full advantage of it made Revolver another groundbreaking album frm a band that already had demonstrated a remarkable ability to reinvent itself from one album to its next.
Other Noteworthy Classic Rock events on April 6 include...
1956 Capitol Records round headquarters in Hollywood is dedicated.
1960 Warren Haynes of the Allman Brothers Band and Govt Mule is born.
1968 Pink Floyd confirms that Syd Barrett is out of the band.
1969 Pete Quaife quits the Kinks.
1971 The Rolling Stones are awarded their own subsidiary label by Atlantic Records.
1971 James Taylor and Carly Simon meet at the Troubadour in LA.
1973 Queen signs a record contract.
1974 Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, the Eagles, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Black Oak Arkansas and Earth Wind & Fire play the first California Jam festival in Ontario, California.
1979 Rod Stewart marries Alana Hamilton in Beverly Hills.
1983 Interior Secretary James Watt bans the Beach Boys from performing at the July 4th celebration in Washington DC, claiming the band would attract the "wrong elements".1984 Miami Steve Van Zandt starts a hiatus from the E Street Band to concentrate on a solo career. He would re-join in 1999 double his workload by landing a role in the Sopranos the same year.
1992 George Harrison's set at a London benefit for the National Law Party is his first London concert appearance since 1969 with the Beatles.
1993 Ann & Nancy Wilson belt out the National Anthem for the Seattle Mariners home opener.
2000 Bryan Adams, Elton John, James Taylor, Cyndi Lauper, Richard Thompson and others perform in tribute to Joni Mitchell in New York City.
2010 Soundgarden reunites.
2015 Steven Tyler signs a solo recording contract.
2016 Gregg Allman's tour bus involved in a crash in Jackson County, West Virginia.
